Donald Trump will quiz the Prime Minister over the plight of Charlie Gard during the G20 summit, it has been claimed.

The US President risked a diplomatic row this week by declaring his support for Charlie, tweeting: “If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the UK and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.”

The White House said that the President was “trying to be helpful” with the tweet, seen as a challenge to UK and European courts.

The 11-month-old baby is at the centre of a huge legal battle involving his parents and doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

They led an 11th-hour bid to save his life after British and European courts ruled his genetic condition is painful, incurable and that he should be allowed to die.

According to the Daily Mail, the White House has now requested an hour-long meeting with Theresa May during the gathering of world leaders in Hamburg on Thursday.

Trump and his wife Melanie arriving in Poland (Image: AFP)

Prime Minister Theresa May will be grilled by Trump over the case, it has been claimed (Image: PA)

A source told the paper that Charlie's family have been in touch with the White House, adding: "President Trump has no desire to pressure the family in any way.

"However, he does want them to know that he is willing to provide assistance should they need any.

"As a father and grandfather, President Trump understands the limitless love one has for a child and he wishes to be helpful to Charlie Gard and his family, as does Pope Francis and millions of families worldwide."

It comes after top scientist Lord Robert Winston branded Trump's intervention as "extremely unhelpful and very cruel."

Scientist and genetics expert Professor Robert Winston hit back at the US President and the Vatican after the papal spokesman vowed to “overcome” the rulings.

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A world-leading specialist in New York pledged his services while a Vatican-run centre known as the Pope’s Hospital offered the terminally-ill tot refuge for as long as he needs it.

Professor Robert Winston has hit out at offers of help from Trump and the Vatican (Image: BBC)

Prof Winston said the “risk of prolonging life in very, very difficult circumstances is probably most cruel” for parents Connie Yates, 31, and Chris Gard, 32. The couple have fought to take Charlie to the US for experimental treatment.

Prof Winston said: “I think the end result is still an unhelpful interference because the probability here is this will be even more tragic and even more disturbing for this child to be travelling to Italy, or wherever it goes.

“This child has been dealt with at a hospital which has huge expertise in mitochondrial disease and is being offered a break in a hospital that has never published anything on this disease, as far as I’m aware.”

Charlie suffers from a rare mitochondrial condition, which is only known to have affected 16 people in the world. He has irreversible brain damage and his lungs cannot function without a ventilator.

Successive legal attempts failed as judges in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in London ruled in favour of Great Ormond Street doctors. The European Court of Human Rights declined to hear the couple’s appeal.

Charlie suffers from a rare mitochondrial condition, which is only known to have affected 16 people in the world (Image: PA)

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told his Italian counterpart it is ‘right that decisions continued to be led by expert medical opinion, supported by the courts’ after the Vatican’s paediatric hospital offered to care for Charlie.

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Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano raised the offer made by the president of the Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome, after Pope Francis called for Charlie’s parents to be allowed to “accompany and treat their child until the end”.

“Minister Alfano also raised the case of Charlie Gard and the Pope’s recent offer of treatment in Italy.

“The Foreign Secretary said this was a deeply tragic and complex case for all involved, and said it was right that decisions continued to be led by expert medical opinion, supported by the courts, in line with Charlie’s best interests.”

Donald Trump has offered to help Charlie (Image: Getty)

Meanwhile PM Theresa May said: “The hospital treating Charlie Gard would consider any offers or new information relating to the “wellbeing of a desperately ill child.”

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Mrs May told MPs: “It is an unimaginable position for anybody to be in and I fully understand and appreciate that any parent in these circumstances will want to do everything possible and explore every option for their seriously ill child.

“But I also know that no doctor ever wants to be placed in the terrible position where they have to make such heartbreaking decisions.”

Pope Francis tweeted: “To defend human life, above all when it is wounded by illness, is a duty of love that God entrusts to all”.